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RefNoPT/73/8/18
LevelItem
TitlePainting, Sumatra dugong by [William Clift]
Date[1820]
DescriptionPlate 25 showing a study of a young female dugong [Dugong dugon], a specimen sent to Everard Home by Thomas Stamford Raffles. With faint pencil sketches of the form of the tail, lower right. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso with the inscription 'On a scale of two inches to a foot'.

Subject: Zoology / Anatomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Some account of the Dugong' by Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles.

Read to the Royal Society on 18 May 1820.
Extent2p
FormatWatercolour
PhysicalDescriptionWatercolour on paper
Dimensions223x287mm
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0129
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1820.0014
RelatedRecordPT/14/16
URLDescriptionDigital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library
URLhttps://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8698
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7491Clift; William (1775 - 1849); museum curator and scientific illustrator1775 - 1849
NA7464Raffles; Sir; Thomas Stamford Bingley (1781 - 1826)1781 - 1826
NA4668Home; Sir; Everard (1756 - 1832); surgeon1756 - 1832
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